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White Denim frontman James Petralli, Jeff Parker, Heba Kadry and Midlake's Eric Pulido and McKenzie Smith discuss using vintage equipment and 鈥渕id-life vintage purchases鈥�, why the sound they make comes from their hands, and why being a musician mostly means reacting to your environment.

James Petralli is aTexas-based musician and frontman of lo-fi noisemakers White Denim. Jeff Parker, is an LA-based multi-instrumentalist and composer who blends everything from jazz to rock via electronics. He鈥檚 also a member of the indie-rock group Tortoise, and has scored several documentaries, feature films, and video games. Eric Pulido and McKenzie Smith are members of the folk-rock band Midlake, and indie supergroup BNQT. Both from Texas, they鈥檝e released four albums as Midlake, the last being 2013鈥檚 Antiphon, and they鈥檙e back next year with new material. And Heba Kadry is an Egyptian-born, Brooklyn-based mastering engineer who鈥檚 worked with Bjork, the Mars Volta, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and has mastered soundtracks for Midsommar and the Oscar-nominated Jackie. She tells us what mastering is, and why all musicians need it.